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Dr Danielle Verdon-Kidd is a lecturer/hydroclimatologist in the Environmental and Climate Change Research Group (ECCRG) within the School of Environmental and Life Sciences. Danielle’s primary research focuses on studying the drivers of climate variability and change in Australia and investigating how to use these insights to improve natural resource management. Of particular interest to Danielle is integrating information from the palaeoclimate records, the instrumental records and Global Climate Models to better assess climate driven risks. Danielle has also carried out a number of projects, within the consulting environment, aimed at helping clients to assess their vulnerability to climate variability/change and their ability to adapt to climate driven risks. Danielle has experience in characterising climate variability and change, hydrological modelling, stochastic modelling, statistical analysis, drought risk analysis, water resources management, computer programming and GIS/spatial analysis.

Kiem AS, Verdon-Kidd DC, 'On the relationship between site specific Australian flood risk and natural variability in the Pacific, Indian and Southern Oceans', 2012 Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium, Sydney, Australia (2012) [E1]

Tozer CR, Verdon-Kidd DC, Kiem AS, 'Investigation into the suitability of using gridded data as a proxy for gauged data in hydrological applications', Proceedings of the 34th World Congress of the International Association for Hydro- Environment Research and Engineering: 33rd Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium and 10th Conference on Hydraulics, Brisbane (2011) [E1]

Verdon-Kidd DC, Kiem AS, 'Is the mid-1990's step change in South-eastern Australian climate part of a longer term climate shift that began in the 1970's?', Proceedings of the 34th World Congress of the International Association for Hydro- Environment Research and Engineering: 33rd Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium and 10th Conference on Hydraulics, Brisbane (2011) [E1]

Kiem AS, Verdon-Kidd DC, 'Adapting to climate variability and change: Limitations of relying on climate model outputs', Proceedings of the 34th World Congress of the International Association for Hydro- Environment Research and Engineering: 33rd Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium and 10th Conference on Hydraulics, Brisbane (2011) [E1]

Ho MW, Kiem AS, Verdon-Kidd DC, 'Links between the Southern Annular Mode (SAM) and Australian rainfall: An investigation into SAM indices', Proceedings of the 34th World Congress of the International Association for Hydro- Environment Research and Engineering: 33rd Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium and 10th Conference on Hydraulics, Brisbane (2011) [E1]

Kiem AS, Verdon-Kidd DC, Henley BJ, 'Specifying Australia's climate variability in the context of a changing climate. Technical report prepared for the Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC)', Australian Government. Grains Research and Development Corporation, 90 (2012) [R1]

Specifying Australia's climate Variability in the context of a changing climate$100,000Funding Body: Grains Research & Development Corporation

2010 (5 grants)

Characterising multi-decadal changes in mid-latitude climate - future implications for Victorian Water Resources (funded by the State of Victoria through the Department of Sustainability and Environme$117,200Funding Body: Newcastle Innovation